Jdg 13:1And the children of Israel yet again committed iniquity before the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Phylistines forty years.
Jdg 13:5for behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and there shall come no [fn]razor upon his head, for the child shall be a [fn]Nazarite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Phylistines.
Jdg 13:6And the woman went in, and spoke to her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his appearance was as of an angel of God, very dreadful; and I did not ask him whence he [fn]was, and he did not tell me his name.
Jdg 13:7And he said to me, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing; for the child shall be holy to God from the womb until the day of his death.
Jdg 13:8And Manoë prayed to the Lord and said, [fn]I pray thee, O Lord my Lord, concerning the man of God whom thou sentest; let him now come to us once more, and teach us what we shall do to the child about to be born.
Jdg 13:9And the Lord heard the voice of Manoë, and the angel of God came yet again to the woman; and she sat in the field, and Manoë her husband was not with her.
Jdg 13:10And the woman hasted, and ran, and brought word to her husband, and said to him, Behold the man who came in the other day to me has appeared to me.
Jdg 13:11And Manoë arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Art thou the man that spoke to the woman? and the angel said, I am.
Jdg 13:14She shall eat of nothing that comes of the vine [fn]yielding wine, and let her not drink wine or strong liquor, and let her not eat anything unclean: all things that I have charged her she shall observe.
Jdg 13:16And the angel of the Lord said to Manoë, If thou shouldest detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wouldest offer a whole-burnt-offering, to the Lord thou shalt offer it: for Manoë knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.
Jdg 13:19And Manoë took a kid of the goats and its meat-offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord; and the angel wrought [fn]a distinct work, and Manoë and his wife were looking on.
Jdg 13:20And it came to pass when the flame went up above the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the Lord went up in the flame; and Manoë and his wife were looking, and they fell upon their face to the earth.
Jdg 13:23But his wife said to him, If the Lord were pleased to slay us, he would not have received of our hand a whole-burnt-offering and a meat-offering; and he would not have shewn us all these things, neither would he have caused us to hear all these things [fn]as at this time.
